How Training Can Enhance Your Cloud Adoption

Cloud adoption continues to soar. In fact, worldwide Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) public cloud services grew by 29.5 percent in 2017, according to Gartner. If it’s not in a company’s current plans to utilize cloud technology, it most certainly will be (or should be) in the next couple of years.

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Course Spotlight: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions Master Class

Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions Master Class is an in-depth course designed to help you gain mastery-level understanding of how to architect an Azure solution. The immersive class accelerates skills retention by reinforcing lessons through real-world challenges and guided group exercises that are exclusive to Global Knowledge.

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6 Things IT Professionals Can Learn from the Film “Groundhog Day”

Aside from plenty of laughs, the 1993 film “Groundhog Day” actually delivers powerful messages about change, love and the too-often-overlooked importance of being courteous to others. Phil is unable to break the time loop until he totally changes who he is. Unless you’re as selfish and heartless as Phil, you probably don’t require this type of transformation to break the repetition. But everyone could stand to make a few smaller changes to get the most out of life and your profession.

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What Every PM Should Know About Project Plans

How do you describe a project plan to someone who is new to project management? Ask a dozen practicing project managers (PMs) this question and they will each give you a different definition based on their unique analytical approaches to project work. With so many differing philosophies, a unified definition of a project plan is necessary. A distinction must also be made between the outputs of project planning and the project plan itself, the significance of which will allow projects of all types to be described at a high level and in a common language.

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Four Reasons Why a DevOps Approach Complements ITIL

Unlike ITIL, DevOps is more of a philosophy than a formal framework. DevOps, which is short for Collaboration between Development and Operations, arose as a movement within IT best practices when IT managers began to realize that something needed to be done to close the communications and collaboration gap between development groups and support operations staff. After some time and examination, it became clear that there was no inherent conflict between the DevOps movement and ITIL—the two, in fact, are quite complementary.

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